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As tensions remain high at the Newark New Jersey Delaney Hall Ice Detention Facility,
“New Jersey Senator and former Newark Mayor, Cory Booker, is adding to ongoing concerns”
about conditions inside. Booker says many of those being held there are being treated inhumanely. Meanwhile demonstrators have periodically clashed with police outside the facility. Untold NPR, a former Trump administration border patrol official, is among those he says trying to stir up trouble.
We have a lot of people from the proud boys to Greg Bavino coming from outside of our state to try to escalate violence and conflict and from the facility and distract from the moral urgency of this facility that should be closed. Over the weekend, New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl established a protected protest zone after officers fired tear gas into the crowd.
The Iranis suspending talks with the U.S. over the years, really military operations in Lebanon and Gaza is real continues to bomb the southern suburbs of Beirut, targetting Hesbola, NPR's Hadeel Ashashi has more.
The semi-efficient Iranian news agency, Tuscanym, which is associated with the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps, said that Tehran was demanding the end of what it called the aggressive and brutal
“Israeli army operations in Gaza and Lebanon.”
It also called for the complete withdrawal of Israeli military forces from Lebanon. Iran said that unless those conditions were fulfilled, talks with the U.S. to end the war would halt. There was no immediate confirmation from senior Iranian officials that messages, mostly related via Pakistan, between the war parties, were being suspended.
The U.S. and Iran said last week they were close to a tentative 60-day ceasefire extension and framework to start talks to end the war, but the agreement is waiting on President Trump's approval. President Trump said Israel and his both a plan to de-escalate their fight in southern Lebanon.
Trump says he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
NPR's Deepa Shriver on reports. Netanyahu had ordered Israeli troops to target areas surrounding Beirut, but now Trump says after his call with Netanyahu, there will be no troops going to Beirut and that any Israeli troops on their way, quote, "have already been turned back."
“Trump says he also spoke with representatives from Hezbollah.”
Israel's increased aggression against Lebanon, which violates the ceasefire agreed on weeks ago, has complicated ongoing talks to end the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran. Iran pulled out of negotiations after Israel's attacks on Beirut. Trump says the talks are continuing with Iran, though, and moving at what he calls a "rapid pace."
Deepa Shriver on NPR news. Four states hold primary elections today, California, New Jersey, Iowa, and South Dakota, the biggest prize, the election for Governor of the primary in California. This is NPR. XFBI officials are attempting to throw a lifeline to anyone still with the bureau and feeling
especially vulnerable to attacks under the Trump administration. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports on a new support group. The new group is called the FBI Support Network. It says the Trump administration is firing FBI staff for partisan reasons and weaponizing the bureau.
A video announcing the group's launch includes remarks from around a dozen former FBI officials, among them one-time acting FBI director Brian Driscoll, a decorated bureau veteran fired by the Trump administration. "It's time for those of us to serve our country with the FBI to offer our assistance to the special agents, intelligence analysts, and the professional staff who are under attack."
The FBI Support Network aims to provide legal assistance, as well as emotional support and help finding new jobs. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. Tennis star Serena Williams is making a comeback nearly four years after stepping away from competition.
The 44-year-old Williams says she's accepted a wild card invitation for the upcoming H.S. B.C. Championships at Queen's Club, the grass court tournament in London, in the doubles competition. The calendar says it's June but the NBA and the NHL finals begin this week. The Stanley Cup finals begin tonight.
There will be in Raleigh, North Carolina. The NBA finals on Wednesday. The Carolina Hurricanes and Las Vegas start their best of seven series. Wednesday night, the NBA finals with the New York Nix will take on San Antonio in the best of game seven series in Texas.
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